Evolutionary Enlightenment

Entries Tagged as 'Evolutionary Enlightenment'

Awakening to Deep Time (Quote of the Week)

November 17th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 5 Comments · Cosmology, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week

When we become aware of the vastness of the entire evolutionary process—from the big bang to the present moment—that is called awakening to Deep Time. It means having the capacity to assume a perspective that is nothing less than cosmic and being able to see whatever’s happening to us personally from its lofty vantage point. [...]

One Between Two

November 10th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 5 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Quote of the Week

The goal of Evolutionary Enlightenment is the emergence of a miraculous potential that I call “intersubjective nonduality.” What does that mean? “Nonduality” is most commonly used to mean oneness, or not-two-ness. It points to the perennial spiritual revelation that there is no other. And “intersubjective” means between subjects. So “intersubjective nonduality,” to put it simply, [...]

A Shift of Identity (Quote of the Week)

November 3rd, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 5 Comments · Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

When the evolutionary impulse is manifesting in our experience as either an inspired act of creative genius or as a surge of spiritually illuminated wisdom or insight, it temporarily becomes the self, the Authentic Self of the individual. In those moments, we become animated by that same inspired energy and intelligence that initiated the creative [...]

A New Home (Quote of the Week)

October 26th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 9 Comments · Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Idealism, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

When you awaken to the evolutionary impulse behind the entire cosmos as your very own Authentic Self, you find yourself living in a new world. It’s not the small, personal world that your ego or separate self-sense has lived in since the day you were born. You may still exist and function in that world, [...]

The Universe Is Interested in You (Quote of the Week)

October 12th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 17 Comments · Consciousness, Cosmology, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionaries, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week

The universe is more interested in you than you are in it. Why? Because the universe is trying to evolve, at the level of consciousness, and consciousness can only develop through you. Human beings are the vehicles through which consciousness can take the next step. From this perspective, we are merely pawns in a much [...]

No Going Back (Quote of the Week)

October 6th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 4 Comments · Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Postmodernism, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

When we experience a profound awakening to the evolutionary impulse, we can never really go back to the way things were before we tasted its magnetic and ecstatic promise. We can’t go back to the unenlightened values and convictions of the personal self, nor can we continue to be spiritually inhibited by the powerful materialist [...]

The Pull of the Possible (Think About This #71)

September 29th, 2009 by Megan Cater· No Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Culture, EnlightenNext magazine, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Think About This

The following excerpt is from the latest blog post by EnlightenNext magazine’s editor in chief, Andrew Cohen. Reflecting on 23 years of experience building a movement dedicated to ongoing spiritual and cultural evolution, Cohen describes the inner commitment necessary to transform inspired visions into new actualities:
Creating the future at the leading edge is a unique [...]

An Evolutionary Life (Quote of the Week)

September 8th, 2009 by Andrew Cohen· 2 Comments · Consciousness, Cultural Evolution, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Quote of the Week, Spirituality

[The following is spiritual teacher and EnlightenNext founder Andrew Cohen's latest "Quote of the Week." To sign up to receive these weekly quotations and teaching excerpts by email, and to read past quotes, visit his website here.]
What motivates us to make the important choices that we make? Are these choices informed by the deepest insights [...]

11 Days at the Edge (Think About This #66)

July 22nd, 2009 by Megan Cater· 15 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality

Many of us at EnlightenNext are now on our way to Italy for the first “Being and Becoming” retreat lead by EnlightenNext founder and spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen. It is difficult to convey the transformative experience of such a retreat–the consuming bliss of meditative stillness coupled with the thrill of evolving consciousness–but California author Michael [...]

Genpo Roshi & Andrew Cohen on the Teacher-Student Relationship

July 2nd, 2009 by Tom Huston· 6 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Spirituality

In this excerpt from a two-hour dialogue conducted last week at the EnlightenNext World Center, Andrew Cohen, spiritual teacher and founder of EnlightenNext, and Genpo Roshi, a modern American Zen master, discuss the dynamics of spiritual hierarchy in the teacher-student relationship:

To read more about Genpo Roshi’s visit to EnlightenNext HQ, see my earlier post.

The Moral Obligation to Evolve (Think About This #61)

June 18th, 2009 by Megan Cater· 4 Comments · Consciousness, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Evolutionary Spirituality, Think About This

In addition to being the founder and editor in chief of EnlightenNext magazine, Andrew Cohen is also the pioneering spiritual teacher of Evolutionary Enlightenment. The following clip is from a talk Cohen gave during an eight-day retreat in which he describes the moral obligation that is inherent in awakening to what he calls the “Kosmocentric [...]